Quotes about Sympathy
There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly.
- Emily Bronte
We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others. a
- Emily Bronte
In the chamber of death... I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadow less hereafter-the Eternity they have entered-where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fullness... One might doubt in seasons of cold reflection; but not then in the presence of her corpse. It asserted its own tranquility, which seemed a pledge of equal quiet to its former inhabitant.
- Emily Bronte
I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
- Emily Bronte
We do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.
- Emily Bronte
that you never be unfortunate or unhappy, but free, unrestricted and unrestrained; in sympathy with God's rule, which you submit to cheerfully; at odds with no one, no one's accuser; able in all sincerity to speak Cleanthes' line: 'Lead me, Zeus, lead me, Destiny.
- Epictetus
Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.
- Charity Shea
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
- William Hazlitt
Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.
- AA Milne
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
- Publilius Syrus
For the secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.
- Joseph Heller